This is probably a feature which store owner might be looking for. As of now store owner has to check for new product reviews from Magento backend in frequent manner.

Won’t it be better if admin gets a instant email whenever a new product review is posted? So that whatever action needs to be carried out with the pending review can be done quickly. You don’t need to buy expensive extension in order to get job done. Here I will be sharing a simple trick to achieve this.

New Features

1. Cron Job based price importing

To configure this, go to Mass Importer Pro > Manage Settings > Price Settings You will see the following setting:

Price Importer: Cron Settings

Field

Description

Enable Cron

Yes

File Import Directory

Path from where CSV files will be imported via cron. Default: var/magepsycho/massimporterpro/price_importerr/cron

Process Imported Files

What to do after the files are imported?Available options are:No ActionMove To Archive FolderDelete

Start Time

At what time cron will run.If ‘Start Time’ = 00 00 00 and ‘Frequency’ = Daily then equivalent cron expression will be 0 0 * * * (which means cron will be run once a day at midnight)REF: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron

4. Relative(fixed & percentage) based price importing

You can self increment or decrement the prices by fixed value or percentage. Also you can set ‘special_price’, ‘tier_price’ & ‘group_price’ to be certain percentage of ‘price’. Valid Examples:

Value

Description

10

Fixed Value

+10

Increment current value by 10

-10

Decrement current value by 10

10%

10% of base price (note that there is no any sign in front)Note: This applies only for price types: special_price, tier_price & group_price

+10%

Increment current price by 10%

-10%

Decrement current price by 10%

5. Option to validate your CSV data

You can validate the CSV data before importing any prices. Go to menu ‘Mass Importer Pro’ > ‘Price Importer’ > Select the import file > Click on the ‘Check Import’ button which will give you the check results.

Price Importer: Check Import Data

6. Website wise price Import

Before Ver 1.1.0 You had to use combination of sku + store_id as unique identifier to update prices. Since Magento has either global or website level scope for prices, we have replaced ‘store_id’ by ‘website_id’.

In order to find the website_id, go to System > Manage Stores > Click on the related Website > Note the website_id from URL. By default website_id = 0 (global)

7. Website wise price Export

You can export prices in format compatible with Mass Importer Pro from menu ‘Catalog’ > ‘Manage Products’. How to export prices is clear from the below screenshot:

Those were the major updates on newer version. Besides we have fixed some bugs & improved the functionality. If you have any queries/issues regarding the extension, please do not hesitate to Contact Us.

Don’t you think updating same contents like media images and other attributes in all simple products of a configurable products is an overhead? For an easier management, it’s better to update frontend visible data only in configurable product. But this may led missing of data if someone makes an API call for simple product, for example: product_media.list

But we have a solution i.e. to retrieve the data (ex. images) always from the configurable product.1. Define XML Rewrite

From the topic of this blog post it’s clear that we are going to discuss on ‘How to send shipment email when tracking info is added to the system?’ This may by useful if carrier tracking info is pushed to Magento by some third party system and want to send shipment email.

As usual, instead of rewriting core classes we will be using event-observer pattern. And events used here will be: sales_order_shipment_save_before & sales_order_shipment_save_after